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Article: Live Review

Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 7-11, 2011

Read "Guelph Jazz Festival: Guelph, Canada, September 7-11, 2011" reviewed by Sara Villa


Guelph Jazz Festival, Colloquium & Nuit Blanche Guelph, Canada September 7-11, 2011 As Prez used to say, if you are a good improviser you are able to tell a soulful story. What happens, then, when some of the most experimental improvisers from Canada, Australia, Norway, and England (among the others) are involved in ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Avant Piano and Saxophone Duets: Interaction & SAMA

Read "Avant Piano and Saxophone Duets: Interaction & SAMA" reviewed by John Sharpe


Joel Futterman / Kidd Jordan Interaction Self produced 2010 Matthew Shipp/ Sabir Mateen SAMA Not Two Records 2010 Sax-piano duets have an illustrious lineage. The vast majority have relied on compositional signposts to direct their musings, something avoided on these two studio dates ...

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Traveling Through Now

Label: Charles Lester Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Primal Center; Illumination; Ascendence; Life's Whisper; Dance of Discovery; Moment Dweller; Outertopeia; Connextions; Triple Question; Freescapes.

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The Joel Futterman / Alvin Fielder / Ike Levin Trio: Traveling Through Now

Read "Traveling Through Now" reviewed by Henry Smith


Free jazz has always defined itself more by what it is not than by what it is. With an embrace of complete freedom of form comes a nearly infinite realm of musical possibility that has continued to expand since its cultural relevance began in the early 1960s. As various interpretations arose, a sort of nonlinear historiography ...

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Enigma

Label: Charles Lester Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Convergence; Wonder; Discourse; Enigma; Formations; Riddlesque; Conciliation; Urbanscapes; Assembly.

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Possibilities

Label: Ear-Rational Records
Released: 2006

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Joel Futterman & Ike Levin: Enigma

Read "Enigma" reviewed by Rex  Butters


This most recent collaboration between two spontaneous musicians, pianist Joel Futterman and reedman Ike Levin, finds them pushing the empathic envelope to discover new, blazing soundscapes in which to ply their art. Futterman, a reclusive genius with a rehearsal habit that stretches eight to ten hours a day, displays staggering technique with unending production of ideas. ...

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Live at the Noe Valley Ministry

Label: IML Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: Track 1 (6:19) / Track 2 (15:59) / Track 3 (15:05) / Track 4 (13:59) / Track 5 (14:28) / Track 6 (10:33).

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Joel Futterman / Ike Levin Trio: Live at the Noe Valley Ministry

Read "Live at the Noe Valley Ministry" reviewed by Frank Rubolino


On their initial 2001 trio recording ( Lifeline, Bay Records), Joel Futterman, Ike Levin, and Kash Killion demonstrated their comprehension of the interpersonal requirements for constructing music of complexity and artistic integrity. This follow-up expands on the parameters of spontaneous communication so skillfully honed on their first joint venture. Performed in concert at a West Coast ...

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Lifeline

Label: IML Music
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1.Paradox 2.Choices 3.Questions 4.Now & Hear 5.Forever


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